Credit: NASA/ZUMA Press/Alamy Margaret Hamilton — a titan of computer science — has died aged 90. She is best known for her work in developing the software for NASA’s Apollo project, which landed the first humans on the Moon. Hamilton’s influence on the field of computing was vast. A specialist in systems engineering and human–computer
The moon has more than 2 million craters on its surface, but the overwhelming majority of the big ones happened long before humans ever started looking at it. That means when someone notices a new big crater, it’s a pretty big deal, and that’s exactly what happened when NASA’s Lunar Orbiter found a brand-new crater
Jeff Dean, who resigned as chief scientist from Google last month, is raising again for his new AI startup, Discovery Loop, this time seeking a valuation of around $50 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. It was only a few weeks ago that Discovery Loop was raising $1 billion dollars at around a
Days after releasing a new, highly capable model, OpenAI’s chief scientist is calling for a slowdown. In a lengthy blog post on Sunday, Jakub Pachocki said he was concerned that “no one is prepared for the consequences of a continued rapid rise in machine intelligence.” He said that although OpenAI is pursuing internal technical solutions
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Anthropic launched Claude Science in June. It joins a host of other AI tools for researchers.Credit: Blossom Stock Studio/Shutterstock In 2010, Euan Ashley, a geneticist and cardiologist at Stanford University in California, led the first clinical analysis of a human genome, which took his team of 31 scientists nine months to complete.1. This week, while
